Protecting earth a moral duty

"Water is not the most precious natural resource. This suggests the problem with materialism. Life is the most precious natural resource and human life is the most precious resource to humans."

Ah, you must work in "Human Resources".

Life is not a resource. It is not tangible. You cannot quantify it.

From Dictionary.com:

1.a source of supply, support, or aid, esp. one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
2.resources, the collective wealth of a country or its means of producing wealth.
3.Usually, resources. money, or any property that can be converted into money; assets.
4.Often, resources. an available means afforded by the mind or one's personal capabilities: to have resource against loneliness.
5.an action or measure to which one may have recourse in an emergency; expedient.
6.capability in dealing with a situation or in meeting difficulties: a woman of resource.

Without water, we would not be able to live. Period. Try it sometime and see how far you get.

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Herb Silverman

Your post is right on target. WishI had written it.

Any religion that posits a hereafter completely separate from this Earth will inevitably denigrate the physical environment of this Earth. Such a religion cannot work as a force to protect the Earth from the greed and chauvinism of human nature.

I think it's safe to assume Herb was referring to the most precious resource TO people.

I would contend though, that religion isn't inherently amoral. In the foundation of the Abrahamic religions, for instance, there are passages that are clear as day against the common (sense?) standard of ethics. There is only one way to interpret a command of stoning someone to death for a misdemeanor at best.

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ON: "INNATE-RELIGION" & "IT"s assigned (holy-frequency) "Holyi-#".

REVEALation:: G-D's Particle awareness plus G-D's Number (permeating) awareness, in OUR current Holyi BIOFINITY (Appearance), is a big big deal.
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NOW: "The British (BP) are coming, the British (BP) are coming..." Well; IF Oil/Gas deposits is Natural-Made; AND Technology is Man-Made; THEN How is INNATE-RELIGION Made?

HiNT: IT was never created not can it ever be destroyed. WE [i] art ALL NATURALLY SELECTtioned; Realizing that fact that YO art not "G-D's Chosen People" anymore.

Note: Religion is not a Science nor can ever be so, but IT (religion Feelings) is an innate Feeling/experience only. And this True-Religion of All religions (please don't be Jealous) have certain Property's (some observed and some not) which are both heart-felt and mind-observable. That's how simple "Religion" is, so don't make IT anymore simpler or anymore complicated than what IT already truly is.

Another HiNT: Natures very own Temperature is the most Holy 'Characteristics' (Observable & Imaginable) of ones current REALITY in both our 9-DiMENsions + holyi-TiME; simultaneously space-forthing US together forever with "SOURCE-1" {a Miracle, not Sin, yet appearing US in Holy Motion), viaa Miracle, Zero biblios SIN/Curse'th factors. So;

We don't need any Man-Made [competing] Religion Systems anymore. Sing, "Goodbye Amon/Zeus/Baal"! Goodbye Moses/Jesus/Muhammads! Goodbye Gautama/Buddhas/Confucius et al!

As Prophecy (if any) Ye surely will be Ye-Selves again, and NOmore under someone-els's MIND/INFLUENCE CONTROL & Pocketbook or as a slave. So their man-made Religion(systems) are dieing or heading the way of the Dinosaur.

Note: The Problem with the "Believer" of the Man-Made; zero Natural-made {innate} System is that such believers of them are still in Denial to selves; or [those 2/3 Awakened] Don't believe in such PRE-Apocalyptarianity anymore yet don't want to spoil a good thing in His/Her Organization for Con Game Activities (having fun playing/manipulating such SuperStupidStitious folks via such old Religions & their naive organized flock of believer).

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Don't Worry: WE [i]'m Not the Imagined "Anti-THIS or Anti-THAT or Anti-G-D/head. But rather; WE [i] as Evoluting MEME's Always Wins.

Besides Photons; TIME IS OUR BEST MEDICINE. So, MEME's will fix their amazing/plasticit bio-carbon-based Holy-MEME-Brain & Holy-MEME-MIND sometime in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd Generations, starting from Today.

Oh YES! The END IS NEAR, the End is Happily Near! Behold another coming New Beginning via OUR holyi TiME {Temperature Balance, aka Holyi-fixed-Frequency. note: IT's unique frequency with Y-O (like Finger Print) is also likened to a Holy Cosmic given Social-Security # assigned to each Frontal-Lobe}. HiNT: One needs only know this # (Frequency). And The Channel is righteously in front of OUR own Noses. No PRAYER nor NO MEDITATION; can make one see IT'S-LOVE.

Say Goodbye to ALL ABRAHAMIC+ & VEDIC+ Man-Made Religions for profit, NOt prophet or such group-Based Systems. So, No Crying please. No condolences, No anything.

Psst; TRUE-RELIGION IS A LONELY ENCOUNTER, THAT CAN NEVER BE SHARED, YET EXPERIENCED IN ONES INDIVIDUAL LIFE THROUGH CHANCE.

So from now-On: Say, [i]WE have religion already and IT's NOt a "HE" nor a "SHE"; it is only an "IT" being ITSELF in & out of US innately. [WE] are "Born In Miracle", NOt via someone els's Sin story's. NOt via someone els's Ancestral Curses or their story's.

WHEREFORE: SEX IS NOT LOVE. LIFE IS-LOVE! BIRTH is the Stuff of Miracles. Miracles begets Miracles. That's the LAw outside Of & inside your very Nature. IT's that simple. NOTE: This Apocalyptic-Sermon is Free Of Charge.

The BP oil spill has dominated the news lately as it should. While this spill could have been avoided by taking more safety precautions, it wasn’t. This was not some random accident that couldn’t have been prevented. Pat Robertson isn’t claiming that God hates the Gulf Coast. Where does religion stand in relation to the environment?

Obviously whenever we talk about religion in a general way, we have to realize that there are many religions and many variations within each religion. Christianity for example is split on the issue of environmental morality. On the one side, you have those Christians advocating the Biblical principle of “good stewardship of the Earth” and on the other side you have those Christians who advocate the Biblical principle that God gave man “dominion over the Earth” to “use and subdue it.”

You can read the rest of my response to this topic:
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Water is not the most precious natural resource. This suggests the problem with materialism.

Life is the most precious natural resource and human life is the most precious resource to humans.

And life is made precious by the value we give it. Without a value for life, all else is inert matter.

The value of life is chosen by the moral system to which one adheres. And if one adheres to a construct that life is random result of inert entities assuming apparently complex forms (when they are really random carrying no other (transcendent perhaps) information), then the value of life is just that of inert matter.

And this brings us back to the importance of human debate, diversity, and unity in promoting life and value of that precious resource. In that spectrum, we can then judge whether this or that action is more or less moral. We can transcend the materialism that is empty of morality.

hariaum

A small but important edit is needed for Herb Silverman's statement: "Science and religion are tools, neither moral nor immoral. Their shared criterion for human morality is the extent to which humans use them to improve the quality of life for all, here on earth."

The shared criterion certainly SHOULD be the quality of earthly life and for many religions this is so - but not for all. Religions that preach that the earth exists for human exploitation ... or that a non-earthly afterlife is more important than human welfare in this one ... are completely inconsistent with the proper aims of scientific research. (They also happen to be at odds with humanist values.)

Interesting and on point comment by Professor Silverman about how we tend to foul our water in search of oil. Also, I agree about the problems with James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. Actually the entire Regan policy was a short-sighted consume now, worry about the consequences later. Had we followed the conservation path started by Carter in the 70's, we would be much better off today.